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When I did this response time returned to what I'd think normal for most web sites. When I logged back in first I got a time-out error on the log in and after successfully clawing my way back response time is rather lacking. Right now I'm waiting for a preview to be fetched... that is a T, not an L. Preview is here after 25+ seconds. Wonder how long this will take to post? I already sent someone duplicate PMs thinking the first hadn't gone through.

Drac

edited to add well over 60 seconds elapsed before the posted message appeared. We must be overloading the server dreadfully.

edited again to add as soon as I'd added the remark above response time was fine, so I guess I somehow fixed the problem.

What's really amusing is opening another browser (and possibly removing poz.com cookies) and using the site. Response time has gotten slower in the last few minutes but it is like a T3 connection compared to a 300 baud modem with the brower I'm logged in on. It's faster to read stuff logged out and if you really want to expend energy and time to post use your logged in browser.

Is this perhaps not a glitch or sign of overload but a new enhancement to help people make really sure they want to post? It's having that effect on me, about to log out and crawl out from under this rock to see what's going on, briefly. It's my night to host mah jongg so I must buy more sweet sherry and Ritz crackers. There's still plenty of Cheez Whiz.

Drac

Call Ripleys! I'm reading this post in IE while it's waiting to be published in Firefox. We may have accidentally created a rift in time or a opened a door to another dimension. Having recently seen the godawful movie The Mis(sed)t as well as Cloverfield (like the Statue of Liberty's head would fit in the middle of a one lane street) I fear nightmares may be ahead this evening. If I die in my sleep from fright I guess I'll never know but I could wake up banned, a fate far worse than death.

Oh.... You're talking about speed, connectivity, etc. I thought "forums all weird and stuff" was referring to the recent hissy-fit-ness of the place. It's been very much like "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf" these days....

Guess I missed all the slowness and stuff. I just noticed that folks haven't been posting as much lately or certain threads are still hanging around that I thought would've been dead a long time ago. I guess no one has anything to talk about or is out enjoying the weather.

Ack! The PM's are all messed up! You can't reply or quote PM's. You have to send all new ones.

This is devastating.

(BTW....I now have almost 7,000 PM's in my cluttered box. I so need to get rid of a ton of them, but there is some juicy information in there as well. I hold Benj, Philly and Doxie primarily responsible.)

Ack! The PM's are all messed up! You can't reply or quote PM's. You have to send all new ones.

This is devastating.

(BTW....I now have almost 7,000 PM's in my cluttered box. I so need to get rid of a ton of them, but there is some juicy information in there as well. I hold Benj, Philly and Doxie primarily responsible.)

Sorry, guys. Something's not right, obviously, but we're not seeing it with our accounts. If one of you wouldn't mind, please PM me your forums password so I can login using your account to see this problem myself, and help us diagnose it. You can change your password, if you want, after I'm done.

Tim, et al -- your PM functions might be missing again. Please check. I tried applying an SMF patch yesterday, and it messed everything up. Uninstalling the patch doesn't work well either, leading to the loss of some functions for some users. At this time, I've kept the patch off, but will need to spend some time with the tech team to fix the problems that removing the patch caused.

I've never had an SMF patch mess up the forums like that. Grrrr. We're stuck at 1.1.4 for now, since 1.1.5 doesn't like us. But I'm still looking forward to 2.0, which comes out this year (currently in its first public BETA release). It has some really cool moderation tools, giving us even MORE power. Ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa!